BA Linguistics (Study Abroad)
Entry requirements
A level: AAB IB: 35 points overall with 16 points from the best 3 HL subjects
About this course
BA Hons in Linguistics (Study Abroad), an English Language and Linguistics degree focusing on human language structure, societal impact, and modern analytical techniques. Core topics include Programming, Statistics, Research Methods, Critical & Analytical Thinking, and Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning. Students spend their third year studying abroad at an international partner university. The first year introduces foundational elements through core modules such as English in Use, Foundations of Language, Language in Mind and Society, and Linguistic Inquiry and Applications. The second year examines data-driven and spoken aspects of communication via Corpus Linguistics, Language and Society in a Data-Driven World, Sounds of the World's Languages, and Structures of the World's Languages. Optional modules across the course allow specialisation in areas such as forensic linguistics, psycholinguistics, computational approaches, and media language. In the final year, students complete core study in Cognitive Linguistics and Phonetic and Phonological Theory, with an option to undertake the Linguistics and English Language Dissertation.
Modules
- English in Use
- Foundations of Language
- Language in Mind and Society
- Linguistic Inquiry and Applications
- English across Space and Time
- Knowledge and Reality in a Complex World
- Ethics: How Should I Live?
- Crime and Popular Culture
- Corpus Linguistics, Language and Society in a Data-Driven World
- Sounds of the World's Languages
- Structures of the World's Languages
- Computational Approaches and their Applications for Language
- Discourse Studies
- English Grammar
- English Phonetics
- Language Acquisition
- Language and Creativity in Advertising
- Language and Pedagogic Practice
- Professional Communication
- Organised Crime
- Contemporary Issues in Policing
- Your Year Abroad
- Cognitive Linguistics
- Phonetic and Phonological Theory
- Forensic Linguistics
- Language and Media
- Language and Social Identities
- Language Variation and Change in English
- Language, Culture and Cognition
- Linguistics and English Language Dissertation
- Pragmatics
- Psycholinguistics